Thomas Kilroy’s The Shape of Metal: “Metal … Transformed into Grace” – Grace into Metal

Авторы

  • Csilla Bertha University Debrecen

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.37389/abei.v9i0.3694

Ключевые слова:

Thomas Kilroy, The Shape of Metal, Failure

Аннотация

Thomas Kilroy in The Shape of Metal, probes into the age-old problems
of the relationship between art and life, artist and human being, physical reality and its transcendence, throwing new light on the many ambiguities involved. The essay examines some of the ways Kilroy dramatizes the experience of human and artistic failure through the protagonist, an old female sculptor, and the evocation of giant artists, from Michelangelo through Giacometti to Beckett and argues that the achievements and artistic principles of these artists highlight some of Kilroy’s own drama-forming principles as well as aspects of his theatricality.

Биография автора

  • Csilla Bertha, University Debrecen

    BERTHA, CSILLA teaches Irish and English literature at University Debrecen, Hungary. Author of A drámaíró Yeats (“Yeats the Playwright,” co-author (with Donald E. Morse) of Worlds Visible and Invisible, Essays on Irish Literature, co-editor of several volumes of essays on Irish literature and culture, she has widely published on various aspects and authors of Irish drama in the twentieth century, including W.B.Yeats, J.M.Synge, Brian Friel, Thomas Kilroy, Tom Murphy, John B.Keane, on the fantastic, on ghosts, doubles, myth and history, postcolonial identities in Irish literature, and on parallels between Irish and Hungarian literature. Founding member of CISLE (Centre for the International Study of Literatures in English), served on the Executive Board of IASIL (International Association for the Study of Irish Literatures, 2000-2006), member of the Advisory Board and the Bibliography Committee of Irish University Review.

Опубликован

2007-06-17

Выпуск

Раздел

Drama

Как цитировать

Bertha, C. (2007). Thomas Kilroy’s The Shape of Metal: “Metal … Transformed into Grace” – Grace into Metal. ABEI Journal, 9, 85-97. https://doi.org/10.37389/abei.v9i0.3694